John Newton and the lyrics to Amazing Grace "Amazing Grace" Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That sav'd a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see. 'Twas grace ...

The words to ‘Amazing Grace’ were written by a clergyman with his own catalog of sins to repent. The tune we all know came later.

What's True Amazing Grace was penned by a former slave trader, but only many decades after he’d left slave trading and seafaring behind and had become a minister of God.